C road crash in Tandridge RH8 on 19 September 2003 at 23:35 involving a Saab 9-3
A Saab 9-3 crashed on a C road in Tandridge at 23:35 on Friday 19 September 2003. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2003
- Friday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23591, longitude 0.01491, in the RH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxted.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345RE42652
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2023.
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 5 February 2023
30 m awayRef 2023451272620
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in Tandridge, 22 September 1998
71 m awayRef 199845EC00303
Fatal
Leyland crash on a C road in Tandridge, 27 June 1995
82 m awayRef 199545EC00177
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on a C road in Tandridge, 5 May 2011
130 m awayRef 201145TA60707
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Tandridge, 17 November 1982
140 m awayRef 198245BC00328
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 27 October 2023
142 m awayRef 2023451368419
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Saab 9-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,985 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Saab 9-3)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200345RE42652 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 2003.